SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE RESOURCE HUB
Podcasts
The STTAR Hub team has found several podcasts that provide beneficial information regarding tobacco control in low SES settings. Each podcast can be streamed on many platforms, listen at your leisure wherever you find your podcasts. Feel free to share episodes and series with your colleagues and peers.
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counter tobacco podcast
Episode 14: “The Tobacco Industry’s Targeting of Low SES Communities”
The tobacco industry spends over $9 billion dollars each year marketing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in the United States. This episode dives into the ways in which the industry allocates this exorbitant amount of money to target communities of low socioeconomic status and examines how the industry’s manipulative tactics impact disparities in tobacco use and tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.
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tobacco endgame matters
Episode 8: “Achieving Endgame in Rural Communities”
In this episode, Shelly Brantley, Project Director at Rural Initiatives Strengthening Equity (RISE), and Tashelle Wright, a health equity researcher, discuss the strategies necessary to implement tobacco policies in rural communities. During their conversation, they identify opportunities and challenges that impact how effectively endgame can be achieved and maintained in these areas.
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national native network
Episode 1: “Great Plains Health Education Successes”
Richard Mousseau of Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board discusses: Challenges and successes of working on cancer prevention in four different states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa, including 17 tribes and 18 tribal communities of indigenous people.